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After three days of violence and looting, British Prime Minister David Cameron has recalled Parliament from its summer recess, and ordered 16,000 police officers to restore order on the streets of London. More than 525 people have already been arrested for rioting, filling every holding cell in the …

According to a multi-national survey of over 9,000 adults by the World Health Organization, France and the United States are the two most mentally depressed countries in the world.Twenty-one percent of French citizens have had a major depressive episode, followed by the United States, at 19.2 percen…

After less than a year on the job, all 20 members of the police force in the northern Mexican town of Ascension resigned on Thursday.The move came in response to months of violent exchanges with drug traffickers.

Wednesday’s harrowing ordeal in Australia involving Madeleine Pulver and a collar bomb has been declared a hoax after the device was declared to be a fake.Bomb squad members spent over 10 hours deconstructing the device before realizing there was no explosive material to be found. Law enforcement of…

An 18-year-old Australian woman was attached to a suspected explosive device by an intruder with an intent to detonate it in a possible extortion attempt.The bomb squad, cooperating with British military personnel, spent over 10 hours working with the device.

Anders Behring Breivik, the 32-year-old Norwegian nationalist who has reportedly confessed to Friday’s bombing in Oslo and the horrific shootings at a youth camp, wrote a 1500-page manifesto before going on the killing rampage that left almost 100 dead.Blake Hounshell, managing editor of Foreign Pol…

A leading member of the LulzSec hacking group, famous for high-profile invasions of the computer databases of companies such as Citibank, has been arrested in the UK.The 16-year-old boy, who goes by the name Tflow online, was taken into custody by the London Metropolitan Police’s E-C…

Gonorrhea, a bacterial sexually transmitted infection, used to be easily treated with antibiotics. But now, a "superbug" strain of the STD has been found in Japan and scientists fear it could become a global public health threat."Since antibiotics became the standard treatment for gon…

The last issue of the British tabloid, News of the World, will be published this Sunday. After admitting illegal phone tapping, the Rupert Murdoch owned publication was forced to shut down operations. This was the 168th year of publication for News of the World. You won't believe who they were …